Mountain Climbing & Salzberg

Our last day in Munich was bitter sweet as we had really started to enjoy Dirk and Silvi, our hosts. We headed to a castle and hit a very fun workout, got in trouble for the first time but finished up and got some scarecrows in -- a fun thing many Friendshippers will be privied to soon enough. We also made it to the Olympic village, and sprinted up an enormous hill that used to be a classic Munich feat of strength. Much of the park was created on top of rubble taken from WWII, which I thought was cool. The sprint up was rough, 150-200m, straight up, and bear crawl down!

My afternoons in Munich were spent with a 30min nap, coffee and a cross-cultural conversation with a German crossfitter...those who know me know how much I enjoyed this. We got in our bus to leave for Vienna, but we found out the night before it would be interrupted by a day in Salzberg. Salzberg is known around here for bein one of the most beautiful places in all of Europe. We began our day with a hike up a mountain...now they say this normally takes between 3 and 6 hours. There are trails and paths, many ways to the top. However that is clearly no way for a CF'er. How does 47 minutes for the fastest of us sound? We literally went straight up the face, off path for a large chunk of the time, and basically the steepest incline you can walk up. It was hard, breathtaking (literally and figuratively), and awesome. I finished in 1.27 and noticed a large gap in my training... Or was made re-aware. I enjoyed the experience and the town of Salzberg was amazing. Small, alp town exactly as you imagine it, romantic, classic, cool. We shopped a bit and saw the city stronghold castle where we hit our morning workout (quite an odd place to do it I assure you). The next morning we were off early for Vienna! More to update soon!